Ding Dong.....the US Politics Thread (Part 1)

If Boris becomes very unpopular the Tories, 1922 Club?, could do half the job for us. Remember how Thatcher went and we got that lovely man Major?

Edit: Oh! there’s that other incumbent in N°10 Cummings but I assume if Johnson goes he at best will only have the shoe closet left.

It appears the networks are waiting until they can confirm the margin is not tight enough to merit a recount, rather than their normal statistical basis for calling a winner.

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Indeed. And we know why this is. It is sad that the incumbent is such a cry baby and sore loser that this is happening. Meanwhile, Trumposhere on the internet throws uranium into the conspiracy reactor.

Boy oh boy!!!

WOWEE!!!

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The fact that Fox has not walked back their call on Arizona is telling. All of the networks are staying in place, deferring completely to state electoral authorities, and trying to avoid becoming part of the story. Unfortunately, even that paralysis is becoming part of the story.

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Surely they are just feeding on it.

Bush vs Gore wasnt called until Dec 12th.

This is such an important point. Go back to 2016 and we woke up the next day with a Democratic house but a GOP controlled senate and Trump, so the narrative was how the Dems blew an election. Yet, their candidate for president won the majority of votes, and in total votes case in senate elections for that cycle the dems got more votes and had their senators representing a majority of the country. As a party they had a message supported by the majority, voted on by the majority and yet wielded no effective power at the end.

You need win by the rules of the game, but criticisms of the party and solutions for how to do better need to take that into account. After every election you need to have self-reflection to see where you could have done better, but every cycle the dems get slated for their performance in a way that ignores how severely handicapped the game is.

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They should have considered that though. The more this grinds on, with an obvious electoral win, the better for those creating the conspiracy theories and the less a defeat for Trump it appears in a narrative.

CNN just called it for Biden.

lol, Trump is golfing at the moment.

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Finally CNN

Woooooohoooo

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Meh…is that it??

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Amazeballs!

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Thank god, I can now switch to Netflix again.

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Barbarians?

Or The Queen’s Gambit?

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And so ? It was much more narrow. Not comparable. As I wrote, I wasn’t talking about time. I made that clear but you missed the parenthesis.

I need something without politics that’s for sure.

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Mandalorian is cozy and oozes good emotions :slight_smile:

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ABC, NBC, CBS have all called it too

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There it is.
Now we wait for the response from Mickey Mouse Don Corleone.

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Fox has been cast in the role of Brutus, putting the last knife in.

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